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CoolBeat.biz is an elected member of the Audio Publishers Association (APA). CoolBeat is NOT a vanity press or a for-hire recording studio. We are a traditional publishing house that specializes in "audiobooks of a different beat". CoolBeat has relationships with physical distributors such as Baker & Taylor, Inc., Amazon.com, and Findaway World, LLC., and downloadable distributors such as Simply Audiobooks, Inc., OverDrive, Inc., NetLibrary, and Audible, Inc.; so your audiobook is immediately available to bookstores and libraries worldwide.
CoolBeat Audiobook Publishing "wants to give you a voice". We are very interested in recording the unpublished submissions of authors from all genres, who have up-beat or off-beat material. Even if you have already published in print media, CoolBeat could also publish your work as an audiobook (i.e. talkingbook, recordedbook, spokenbook, eAudiobook).
Downloadable MP3 audiobooks are an excellent medium for authors to place their name in front of the public, and a way to catch-the-ear of print publishers. The best candidates for audio books are books, college papers, articles, essays, and other manuscripts that transmit the authors intentions well when spoken aloud, and which do not include integral visual illustrations.
We record using high-end professional grade audio equipment, and have an outstanding stable of award winning Voice Talent and Recording Technicians. CoolBeat only uses your manuscript to create our audiobook productions, YOU still maintain ownership of your authored material.
CoolBeat Audiobook Publishing, while reserving the right of making final decisions, considers the authors wishes in regards to audiobook production and promotion. To increase an audiobooks sales potential, we encourage authors, whom we have deemed to have a suitable quality voice and oratory skills, to read their own work.
For niche material that catches our interest, but might otherwise languish in our queue as just a remote possibility; CoolBeat considers enticement offers to either produce the audiobook without royalty compensation, and/or produce the audiobook where, as a team, the author and CoolBeat both share in the funding of the initial production of the audiobook. Subsidy calculations would be based on approximate printed page length, and would include recording (professional in-house reader without sound effects) and mastering.
Come have fun creating with us. We welcome your manuscript submissions. Send them to:
CoolBeat Audiobook Publishing
2172 Gulf Gate Dr.
#222
Sarasota, FL 34231
Note: Unfortunately due to recent "Homeland Security" bans on self-addressed stamped return packages, submissions will no longer be returned. |
